Children's voices
Subtitle: children's perspectives in ethics, theology and religious education
By: edited by Annemie Dillen, Didier Pollefeyt
Series: Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 230; Bibliotheca Ephemeridum theologicarum Lovaniensium -- 230.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9789042922471
Subjects: Kind; Etik och moral; Ethik; Religious aspects; Religious life; Konferenser; Religiöst liv; Ethiek; Kinderen; Kristendomsundervisning; Theologie; Religiöse Erziehung; Congresses; Godsdienstige opvoeding; Ethics; Children; Barn
Description: This book deals with themes concerning religious education and the spirituality of children. Throughout the seventeen chapters, the book stimulates a scholarly discussion about children and theology. The book makes clear that classical Christian theology can benefit from taking seriously children's voices and reflections about children. The volume demonstrates how nuanced and interdisciplinary reflections can be relevant for Christian and social practices of adults with children and how these practices can influence theology. This volume asks the following questions: - Why is it important that we hear the 'voices of children' and what does this mean for how we treat children and relate to them? - What do the 'voices of children' express? How do children experience society and, in particular, religion, and what do they have to say about it? - What do the 'voices of children' mean for theology, ethics and religious education? In what way can our theology change when we see reality from the perspective of children?
Notes: International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : children's studies and theology : an hermeneutics of complexity  -- Annemie Dillen, Didier Pollefeyt; title: Children's voices, spirituality, and mature faith  -- Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore; title: God is not your divine butler and therapist! : countering "moralistic therapeutic deism" by teaching children the art of theological reflection  -- Karen-Marie Yust; title: (Stifled) voices of the future : learning about children in the Bible  -- Ma. Marilou Ibita, Reimund Bieringer; title: The beloved child : the presentation of Jesus as a child in the Second Testament  -- Reimund Bieringer, Ma. Marilou Ibita; title: Beginning again with Jesus  -- Adrian Thatcher; title: The disappearing child or the disappearing adult? : on the image of the innocent child in a commercialised childhood  -- Bruno Vanobbergen; title: The sacralization of childhood in a secularized world : another paradox in the history of education? : an exploration of the problem on the basis of the open-air school Diesterweg in Heide-Kalmthout  -- Geert Thyssen, Marc Depaepe; title: The lost face of children in larger social systems  -- Pamela D. Couture; title: Childism and the ethics of responsibility  -- John Wall; title: The ethical voice of the child : plea for a chiastic responsibility in the footsteps of Levinas  -- Roger Burggraeve; title: How do children become active subjects within the domestic church? : reflections on a neglected aspect within Roman Catholic ecclesiological discourse on the domestic church  -- Peter De Mey; title: Praying with children : attending to religious diversity within families  -- Julie Hanlon Rubio; title: The vocation of children and parents : sacred vision and spiritual practices  -- Marcia J. Bunge; title: Where do children get their theology from?  -- Gerhard Büttner; title: Children's inner voice : exploring children's contribution to spirituality  -- Elaine Champagne; title: Through a glass darkly : the search for meaning and the challenges of contemporary children's literature  -- Rita Ghesquière; title: Towards a catechesis where children are not accepted? -- Henri Derroitte.